Place your soil mix in the dug hole and plant the seedling so that the base of the trunk in the container matches the garden soil level. Although palm trees have long been associated with desert ...

You can find the occasional festivity that pays admiring homage to these gorgeous growers, the remarkable botanical life that ...

The iconic Cape Verde date palm came from commercial trees gone feral and could provide genetic variety to boost the resilience of its tamer relatives.

Ponytail palm trees are low maintenance indoor plants that require just some essential ... Naturally growing in semi-desert areas in tropical climes, ponytail palms require plenty of bright ...

Many desert plants can live for hundreds of years. But in California, the iconic Joshua tree—the oldest found was 1,000 years old—may not survive a hotter climate, scientists warn. If they don ...

Los Angeles without palm trees? After the recent wildfires, some say it’s too risky to keep as many of these stars of the L.A. skyline around.

The new discovery suggests that researchers are far from documenting all of the plant diversity of the Chihuahuan Desert, ...

Many say 19th-century Mormon settlers named these plants after the biblical Joshua because their branches looked like his arms, raised toward heaven. The Joshua tree is also called izote de desierto, ...